Alfredo Corchado

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On Monday, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington hosted a
panel discussion on the press freedom crisis in Mexico. Carlos Lauría and I
spoke about CPJ report "Silence or Death in the Mexican Press" and the results
of our meeting in September with President Felipe Calderón. Dolía Estevez described
the event in a blog she posted yesterday. I was struck by the remarks made
by Dallas Morning News correspondent
Alfredo Corchado, one of Mexico's bravest and best reporters. Excerpts from his
prepared remarks are below:

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On
Monday, before a large audience of government officials, representatives of
NGOs, reporters, and students, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas,
Carlos Lauría,
said that the level of crime violence, and corruption facing the press in
Mexico, where more than 30 journalists have been murdered or have gone missing
since Felipe Calderón took office in December of 2006, is destroying the
country's journalism and forcing many reporters into self-censorship or exile.
"Not only the drug trade and corruption are not being covered, but basic daily
sensitive issues are being ignored as well," he said. "Self-censorship is
pervasive."

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CPJ’s Joel Simon will be live on Wednesday on
“The Kojo Nnamdi Show,” a daily
news public radio show in Washington.
Joining Simon will be Iraqi journalist Haider Hamza, who has covered the war in
Iraq for Reuters and ABC News, and
Alfredo Corchado, the Mexico bureau
chief for The Dallas Morning News, in
a discussion on how violence against journalists ends up influencing media
coverage in countries such as the
Philippines and Honduras. Listen
in at noon in Washington
on WAMU 88.5 FM or simultaneously on the show's site. The segment
on global threats to journalists will begin at 1:06 p.m.